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词条 The Fox (Elton John album)
释义

  1. Track listing

  2. B-sides

  3. Visions: The videos from The Fox

  4. Personnel

  5. Production

  6. Charts

     Weekly charts  Year-end charts  Certifications 

  7. References

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| name = The Fox
| type = studio
| artist = Elton John
| cover = The fox (Elton John album) coverart.jpg
| alt =
| released = 20 May 1981
| recorded = August, December 1979
January–June 1980
| venue =
| studio = Super Bear Studios (Nice, France); Sunset Sound Recorders, The Village Recorder and Devlon Studios (Los Angeles); Abbey Road Studios (London).
| genre = Rock, soft rock, pop rock, new wave
| length = 45:48
| label = Geffen (US)
Rocket (UK)
| producer = Chris Thomas, Elton John, Clive Franks
| prev_title = 21 at 33
| prev_year = 1980
| next_title = Jump Up!
| next_year = 1982
| misc = {{Singles
| name = The Fox
| type = studio
| single1 = Nobody Wins
| single1date = 23 May, 1981
| single2 = Just Like Belgium
| single2date = July 1981
| single3 = Chloe
| single3date = July 1981
}}
}}{{Album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}[1]
|rev2 = Rolling Stone
|rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}[2]
}}

The Fox is the fifteenth studio album by English singer Elton John, released in 1981. With sales of approx. 300,000 US copies, it was one of Elton's poorest-selling albums in the United States.

The track "Elton's Song" was banned from radio play in some countries due to its content, which included references to homosexuality.[3] The album was produced by John, Clive Franks and, for the first time, Chris Thomas, who would produce many more albums with John through most of the 1980s and '90s.

Five of the songs (noted below) were recorded during the sessions for his previous album 21 at 33. All B-sides released around this time were also from those sessions.

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Breaking Down Barriers" (John, Gary Osborne) – 4:42
  2. "Heart in the Right Place" (John, Osborne) – 5:15*
  3. "Just Like Belgium" (John, Bernie Taupin)– 4:10
  4. "Nobody Wins" (Jean-Paul Dreau, Osborne) – 3:40
  5. "Fascist Faces" (John, Taupin) – 5:12
Side two
  2. "Carla/Etude" (John) – 4:46*
  3. "Fanfare" (John, James Newton Howard) – 1:26*
  4. "Chloe" (John, Osborne) – 4:40*
  5. "Heels of the Wind" (John, Taupin) – 3:35
  6. "Elton's Song" (John, Tom Robinson) – 3:02*
  7. "The Fox" (John, Taupin) – 5:20

(*): Recorded in August and December 1979, January 1980 and produced by John and Clive Franks. Chris Thomas produced the other tracks.

In 2003, Mercury/Universal and The Rocket Record Company reissued the album on CD, remastered by Gary Moore. The line-up contained no bonus tracks. On the 2003 reissue and remaster (and European) CD, "Carla/Etude", "Fanfare" and "Chloe" are combined into one track, making it a nine-track album.

French and Quebec releases of the album included "J'Veux de la Tendresse" in place of "Nobody Wins". "Tendresse" was the original French version of the song which Osborne wrote English lyrics for, thus transforming the song into "Nobody Wins".

After 1981, only "Chloe", "Just Like Belgium", "Nobody Wins" and "Elton's Song" would be included in Elton's Jump Up tour in 1982. While "Chloe", "Just Like Belgium" and "Nobody Wins" have never been performed again since that tour, "Elton's Song" was performed a few times on a solo tour in 1999. Since then, however, Elton has also stopped performing that song.

However, since the album's release, Elton would perform "Carla/Etude" on his 1986 world tour with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and on subsequent solo tours, plus on a set of 2004 shows with the Royal Academy of Music Orchestra, making it the only song off the album that was performed up to 2010 on a tour with Ray Cooper.

B-sides

Song Format
"Fools in Fashion" "Nobody Wins" 7" (US/UK)
"Nobody Wins" (extended version) "Nobody Wins" 12" (US)
"Je Veux De La Tendresse" (French version of "Nobody Wins") "Nobody Wins" 12" (US)
"Can't Get Over Getting Over Losing You" "Just Like Belgium" 7" (UK)
"Tortured" "Chloe" 7" (US)

Visions: The videos from The Fox

Visions, released on VHS in 1982, is a video of all ten songs recorded for The Fox album. It is notable as one of the first long-form video releases of an album. The collection was also released on RCA's CED video disc, a precursor to the Laserdisc and DVD, but has not been released since. The video for "Elton's Song", which dealt with the story of a teenager boy's admiration for another teenage boy he yearns for, but is too shy to confront his feelings, was excluded from the UK video release because the public school it was filmed in objected to the theme of the song. All the videos were conceptualised by Keith Williams and directed by Russell Mulcahy.{{citation needed|date=January 2011}}

Personnel

Track numbering refers to CD and digital releases of the album.

  • Elton John - lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 5, 9), piano (1-3, 5, 6, 8-11), vocal solo on "Breaking Down Barriers"
  • Ronald Baker - backing vocals on "The Fox"
  • Colette Bertrand - French girl on "Just Like Belgium"
  • Carl Carwell - backing vocals on "The Fox"
  • Chuck Cissel - backing vocals on "The Fox"
  • Bill Champlin - backing vocals (1, 8, 9), tambourine on "Chloe" and "Heels of the Wind"
  • James Cleveland - spoken voice and choir director on "Fascist Faces"
  • Cornerstone Baptist Church Choir - choir on "Fascist Faces"
  • Victor Feldman - percussion on "Fanfare" and "Chloe"
  • Clarence Ford - backing vocals on "The Fox"
  • Roy Galloway - backing vocals on "The Fox"
  • Jimmy Gilstrap - backing vocals on "The Fox"
  • Venette Gloud - backing vocals on "Breaking Down Barriers" and "Heels of the Wind"
  • Max Carl - backing vocals on "Chloe"
  • Jim Horn - alto saxophone on "Just Like Belgium"
  • Roger Linn - programming on "Nobody Wins"
  • John Lehman - backing vocals on "The Fox"
  • Tamara Matoesian, now Tamara Champlin - backing vocals on "Breaking Down Barriers" and "Heels of the Wind"
  • Reggie McBride - bass guitar (2, 8)
  • Dee Murray - bass guitar (1, 3, 5, 9, 11), backing vocals on "Chloe"
  • James Newton Howard - synthesizer (1-4, 7, 9, 10), vocoder (2), programming (4, 10), piano, Fender Rhodes (8), Hammond organ (11)
  • Marty Paich - string arrangement on "Chloe"
  • Nigel Olsson - drums (1, 3, 5, 9, 11)
  • Gary Osborne - backing vocals on "Chloe"
  • Mickey Raphael - harmonica on "The Fox"
  • Stephanie Spruill - tambourine and backing vocals on "Breaking Down Barriers" and "Heels of the Wind"
  • Alvin Taylor - drums (2, 8)
  • Oren Waters - backing vocals on "The Fox"
  • Richie Zito - guitar (1, 3, 5, 9, 11)
  • London Symphony Orchestra - strings on "Carla/Etude" and "Chloe"

Production

  • Producers: Chris Thomas (Tracks #1, 3-5, 9, 11); Clive Franks and Elton John (Tracks #2, 6-8, 10).
  • Engineered by Bill Price
  • Assistant Engineer: Karen Siegel
  • Art Direction: Richard Seireeni
  • Photography: Eric Blum
  • Elton John Photo: Terry O'Neill

Charts

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Weekly charts

Chart (1981)Peak position
Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart[4]2
Austrian Albums Chart[5]11
Canadian RPM Albums Chart[6]43
Dutch Mega Albums Chart[7]20
French SNEP Albums Chart[8]5
New Zealand Albums Chart[9]6
Norwegian VG-lista Albums Chart[10]5
Swedish Albums Chart[11]25
UK Albums Chart[12]12
US Billboard 200[13]21
West German Media Control Albums Chart[14]34
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Year-end charts

Chart (1981)Position
Australian Albums Chart[4]31
French Albums Chart[15]15

Certifications

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References

1. ^{{cite web |url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r10479|pure_url=yes}} |title=The Fox|publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=16 February 2012}}
2. ^[https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/eltonjohn/albums/album/322917/review/5942851/the_fox] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516093244/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/eltonjohn/albums/album/322917/review/5942851/the_fox |date=16 May 2007 }}
3. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.il/books?id=WcM9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT255&dq=elton%27s+song+%22video+itself+got+banned+in+America%22,+%22no+US+radio+station%22&hl=iw&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjT6PGupq_fAhUBjSwKHVokBpMQ6AEICjAA#v=onepage&q=elton%27s%20song%20%22video%20itself%20got%20banned%20in%20America%22%2C%20%22no%20US%20radio%20station%22&f=false|title=David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music|last=Bullock|first=Darryl W.|publisher=Abrams Press|year=2017|isbn=|location=|pages=}}
4. ^1 {{Cite book |title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 |last=Kent |first=David |authorlink=David Kent (historian) |publisher=Australian Chart Book |location=St Ives, NSW |year=1993 |isbn=0-646-11917-6 }}
5. ^{{cite web |title=austriancharts.at Elton John – The Fox |work=Hung Medien |language=German |format=ASP |url=http://austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?interpret=Elton+John&titel=The+Fox&cat=a |accessdate=29 October 2011}}
6. ^Library and Archives Canada. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429190343/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.6482&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=c6btf3r8hs459qqt5ln3o3dcv5 |date=29 April 2014 }} Retrieved 29 January 2012
7. ^{{cite web |title=dutchcharts.nl Elton John – The Fox |publisher=MegaCharts |url=http://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Elton+John&titel=The+Fox&cat=a |work=Hung Medien |language=Dutch |format=ASP |accessdate=29 January 2012}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://infodisc.fr/Album_J.php |title=InfoDisc : Tous les Albums classés par Artiste > Choisir Un Artiste Dans la Liste |publisher=infodisc.fr |language=French |format=PHP |accessdate=29 January 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130910214521/http://infodisc.fr/Album_J.php |archivedate=10 September 2013 |df= }}
9. ^{{cite web |title=charts.org.nz Elton John – The Fox |work=Hung Medien |publisher=Recording Industry Association of New Zealand |url=http://charts.org.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Elton+John&titel=The+Fox&cat=a |format=ASP |accessdate=29 January 2012}}
10. ^{{cite web |title=norwegiancharts.com Elton John – The Fox |work=Hung Medien |publisher=VG-lista |format=ASP |url=http://norwegiancharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Elton+John&titel=The+Fox&cat=a |accessdate=29 January 2012}}
11. ^{{cite web |title=swedishcharts.com Elton John – The Fox |format=ASP |url=http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Elton+John&titel=The+Fox&cat=a |language=Swedish |accessdate=29 January 2012}}
12. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.chartstats.com/release.php?release=39615 |title=Chart Stats – Elton John – The Fox |publisher=UK Albums Chart|format=PHP |accessdate=29 January 2012}}
13. ^{{cite web |title=allmusic ((( The Fox > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums ))) |publisher=allmusic.com |url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r10479/charts-awards|pure_url=yes}} |accessdate=29 January 2012}}
14. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.officialcharts.de/album.asp?artist=Elton+John&title=The+Fox&cat=a&country=de |title=Album Search: Elton John – The Fox |language=German |publisher=Media Control |accessdate=29 January 2012}}
15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.infodisc.fr/B-CD_1982.php |title=Les Albums (CD) de 1981 par InfoDisc |language=French |format=PHP |publisher=infodisc.fr |accessdate=29 January 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6DG9ejVu9?url=http://www.infodisc.fr/B-CD_1982.php |archivedate=29 December 2012 |df= }}
16. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.hr/books?id=GCQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT57&dq=album+sales+kim+wilde&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMjMbYpu7YAhXO6qQKHW1jBTM4ChDoAQgrMAE#v=onepage&q=album%20sales%20kim%20wilde&f=false|title=Major fight economics with quirky rock originals|publisher=Billboard|date=12 June 1982 |accessdate=22 September 2018}}
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